#intention

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #bring #characters #film #i

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#determination #intentions #life #living #purpose

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#caused #evil #goodness #human #human nature

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#ask #best #cannot #even #few

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#cooperation #create #deal #intentional #local

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. ↗

— John Burroughs

#deed #greatest #intention #smallest #than

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#believe #capital #conception #death #except

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#fear #his #holy #intention #just